December 17, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



871 



from time to time determine in the prosecution 

 of researches as to the cause, prevention and cure 

 of cancer, and, should the progress of science at 

 any time make the prosecution of further research 

 in regard to cancer unnecessary, then the income 

 of said fund may be used as said trustees may 

 from time to time determine in the prosecution of 

 other researches in medicine and surgery, and in 

 the science allied thereto, with a view of prevent- 

 ing and curing diseases and of alleviating human 

 suffering. 



Provided, however, that no part of the principal 

 or income of this fund shall be at any time used 

 for the erection of a building. 



prove the establishment of the said dormitory 

 as contemplated by the corporation. 



CHANGES AT HARVARD COLLEGE 

 At a meeting of the Board of Overseers of 

 Harvard College, held in Boston, December 

 8, 1909, the president of the university com- 

 municated the following votes of the faculty 

 of arts and sciences modifying the choice of 

 electives : 



1. That a standing committee of nine, of which 

 the president shall be chairman, be appointed from 

 the faculty, with power to associate with itself a 

 large number of advisers for students. 



2. That the committee prepare general rules for 

 the choice of electives, to be approved by the 

 faculty, based upon the principle that a student 

 must take a considerable amount of work in some 

 one field, and that the rest of his courses must be 

 well distributed. 



3. That at the end of his first year in college 

 each student be required to present to his adviser 

 a plan of study for the remainder of his college 

 course; and that the plan must conform to the 

 general principles laid down by the committee, 

 unless the committee is satisfied that the student 

 is earnest and has sufficient grounds for departing 

 from those principles. 



4. That a student's plan be subsequently changed 

 only for a cause satisfactory to the committee. 



And after debate thereon, the board unani- 

 mously approved said votes, and authorized 

 the carrying out of the same. 



The president of the university communi- 

 cated orally to the board the contemplated 

 establishment by the corporation of a fresh- 

 man dormitory, and explained the purpose 

 and scope of the same, and after debate 

 thereon, the board unanimously voted to ap- 



EDVCATIOW AT THE BOSTON MEETING OF 

 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



Members of the American Association who 

 are interested in education as well as in sci- 

 ence will find much in the program of the 

 Boston meeting to attract them. Because of 

 the establishment of the section of education 

 a number of educational interests are group- 

 ing themselves around the American Associa- 

 tion, and this manifests itself in the program 

 of the coming meeting by the fact that there 

 are educational meetings scheduled for nearly 

 every morning and afternoon of the session. 



Section L itseK will hold three sessions. 

 The first of these on Tuesday afternoon will 

 be devoted to the discussion of scientific 

 problems in general education by members of 

 the section. On Wednesday afternoon re- 

 ports will be made by the General Education 

 Board, the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- 

 vancement of Teaching and the Bureau of 

 Education on their studies of the American 

 college. At 4.30 on that day, Professor 

 Dewey, the retiring vice-president, will de- 

 liver his address on " Science as a Method of 

 Thinking and as Information in Education." 

 On Thursday morning the committee on the 

 Distribution of Students in Elective Courses 

 will present its report. 



The section will hold also two joint meet- 

 ings; one on Tuesday morning, with the 

 American Federation of the Teachers of the 

 Mathematical and Natural Sciences, to which 

 preliminary reports from several of the sec- 

 tion committees of the International Com- 

 mission on Teaching Mathematics will be 

 presented and other topics of general interest 

 to science teachers discussed. The other will 

 be held on Wednesday morning with the 

 Social Education Club of Boston and will be 

 devoted to the discussion of the problem of 

 social education. 



Besides these meetings, a number of others 

 have been arranged by the local associations 

 of teachers and by other sections of the as- 

 sociation. Section A will listen to a prelim- 



